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New standards being implemented everywhere require a new approach to grading to ensure that grades reflect your students' progress toward specific learning outcomes, including not only mastery of content but also the ability to be creative critical thinkers and problem solvers. You can meet that new challenge using a new paradigm for standards-based grading defined in this book by ASCD best-selling author Cathy Vatterott. Discover how moving to a standard-based approach to grading helps you

Provide students with feedback that is more encouraging and less punitive.

Ensure grades authentically reflect student progress and learning.

Clear guidelines with lots of concrete examples—from elementary, middle, and high schools—will help you decide what to grade or not grade, how to grade, and when. Plus a well-articulated leadership strategy helps take a new standard-based approach to grading school- or systemwide.

Renowned standards and assessment expert Robert Marzano provides you with a thorough understanding of what grades are for, what should be included in them, and how to compute final scores that accurately reflect student learning.

Drawing from years of in-depth research, Robert J. Marzano provides you with guidelines and steps for designing a comprehensive assessment program that ensures assessments and grades lead to timely, accurate feedback on specific, standards-based learning goals.

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Two of ASCD’s most popular authors, Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher, reveal how to create a failsafe assessment system that leads to purposeful lessons, clear indicators of student understanding, and forms of feedback that improve student performance. With this breakthrough guide to formative assessment, learn how to create purposeful lessons that tap into students’ motivation and help with their goal-setting. Discover lots of different ways to determine what students understand, what is still unclear, and how to use their mistakes to determine what to teach next.

Educator Myron Dueck reveals how many of the assessment policies that teachers adopt can actually prove detrimental to student motivation and achievement and shows how we can tailor policies to address what really matters: student understanding of content.

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In Changing the Grade, author and educator Jonathan Cornue presents a detailed model for developing a more reliable, standards-based grading system—including 30 steps to guide you through the process. In addition to identifying and addressing the barriers to change—such as concerns about how colleges and employers will interpret an alternative grading model—Cornue offers a concrete structure for changing the grading system.